I’ve put my fifth album temporarily on hold while I work on this other project. Somebody in the emulator scene developed what’s called an MSU-1 chip. Basically it’s a tool that lets you replace the less-than-midi quality music in SNES games with pcm wav files. (It is an actual chip as from what I understand it is possible to do this on an actual snes with a specifically modified cartridge. I just use a patched snes9x so I can play the games on a big screen without pixelation) My sound has always been highly influenced by the soundtracks for the Mega Man X games for the SNES. (I’ve even covered side of them) They have a unique blend of metal, techpop, symphony, and excellent energetic-yet-somehow-sombre songwriting that was a hide influence on me and I’ve never heard it anywhere else. The closest I’ve heard is the Finnish Melodic Death Metal scene, probably why I like it so much, bit even it has a different vibe.

Anyway, upon discovering this, I decided I had to cover the entire soundtracks for all 3 games and insert them into the games to pay homage. I’m almost done with the first game, and will release it soon. I will release it as a standalone music pack with a readme with instructions on patching your ROM to play these. (Now that there’s a patched SNES9X available that supports this it’s quite easy)

Here’s a track from it. It’s not a particularly iconic track, but it’s the one I did today. Besides, wouldn’t want to give away the big reveals before the pack comes out!